Bologna-Milan, Calabria against Conceiçao: the background

Davide Calabria has never been to a stadium in which Milan played without having a Rossoneri logo on him. Perhaps when he was 10 years old and was registered with Virtus Adrense but it is not worth: it is a memory fallen in prescription. Calabria went to Milan in 2007 and probably thought it would always go like this: Milan on the field and he happen, as for a design of fate. However, fate has other to deal with and so … welcome to this strange Bologna-Milan on Thursday evening: Davide Calabria against Milan. Yes, but how did it happen? How did the relationship between the club and its captain broke?

the contract

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Failure to renew was the great clue. Calabria had the contract expiring in June 2025 and the visions – of the club and its agents – have always been far away. An agreement was not found and it was soon understood that there would no longer be attempts. Milan, said simple, made a technical evaluation and chose to continue without Davide Calabria. Summer did the rest.

The market: Emerson Royal

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AC Milan a year ago decided that she wanted to buy a right back and pointed Emerson Royal. In the spring there were the first contacts, the press release on the purchase was sent on August 12: Milan had a new owner on the right. Calabria initially thought of playing it – after all, in the past he had won more duels – but soon he lost the shirt and the owner band. He played the first two championship games, then he hurt himself and in October he entered the investigation into the curves of San Siro, who certainly did not help him stay at Milan.

The captain’s armband

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Calabria between autumn and winter has played little and Gene Gnocchi, in mid -December, commented for everyone: “Calabria vents with Fonseca: ‘By now Milan are used as the Jalisse in Sanremo'”. Good as always. In the meantime, Fonseca had theorized the strange formula of the rotating captain – a little Theo, sometimes Leao, perhaps Tomori … – and, when it arrived Conceiçao, the band definitively passed to Mike Maignan. Another symbol of the end of a relationship.

The clash with Conceiçao

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Conceiçao symbolizes the point of no return. On Friday 24 January, Calabria appeals to a concert by Lazza, Conceiçao does not like but two days later, Sunday at 12.30, he sends him to the field as a starter against Parma in San Siro. When he is replaced, 13 minutes from the end, Calabria kicks a bottle, then he vents on the bench. He didn’t want to go out and does nothing to hide it. Conceiçao, incredibly, at the final whistle chases him and would have come to the physical clash if Siranama dembélé, wise, had not come in the middle. Away, it’s over. Bologna understands that an opportunity and calls. And Calabria, who until 20 January thought he was staying at Milan until expiry, accepts. Then, he comments: “Going away from Milan was the right choice for all sides, and I say it without wanting to enter detail. Obviously it was a farewell with sadness. ” And again: “After 18 years it is like leaving my wife, it is difficult for me. There (in Milan) there had been unpleasant situations, here I am already happy for finding a healthy environment, with super positive energy that perhaps in recent times has been missing. Conceiçao? I don’t want to face the topic anymore … “. It can be said, it ended badly, in breaking with the company and the coach: a little question of incompatibility between characters, a little for technical assessments. On the last day, leaving Milan, Davide Calabria cried thinking about a life that ends. This time it will run on the band, will cross, perhaps even greet Conceiçao. Cry no, it’s not time.